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BRING:
Projectors
Power strips

Teachers:

• Before we begin our day please either create a MindMeister account or log in to your account. Ask for help if you need it.
• Google accounts: disassociate any existing Google accounts from your district96.org email. We will be creating new accounts for you within our district96.org Google Apps domain. Any old documents can be transferred to your new account.
• Your new account's default password is welcomehauser.

July 30, 2012 Agenda
9:00	Introduction: 21st Century Learners & MindMeister
10:00	Stations: Wikispaces and Google Docs
11:30	Laptop Logistics for 2012-2013
12:00	Lunch
12:30	Zoom to Support Instruction
12:45	Pages Basics & Work Time
2:00	Rest up for tomorrow!

1. 21st Century Learners - Liz

As teachers arrive: Set up Mindmeister accounts or log into existing accounts.
Google accounts: Make sure no teachers are logging into Google with their District 96 address.
Welcome to the Laptops for Learning Program: Teachers as 21st Century Educators
In what ways do 21st Century Learners acquire or gain skill or knowledge?
What types of teaching methods will we employ with them?
Let's brainstorm ways to meet the challenges.
(Keynote with intro, movie, and summary of video ideas available:** Summary Ideas for 21st Century Learners Video)
Mindmeister shared map

Shared Google Doc

2. Stations: Wikispaces and Google Docs

Station Groups
Group 1: Dana, Jennie, Laura, Lauren, Lynn, Noah, Tracy
Group 2: Chris, Claire, Derek, Katie, Julie, Peter

Station 1: Wikispaces with Paula

• Creating a Teacher (free) wiki (Wikis for Educators)
• Customizing your wiki
• Managing Students on your wiki
• Special features - Comments, Projects
• A wiki for help with wikis

Station 2: Google Docs with Liz

• District 96 Google Apps Domain
• Google Documents for Collaboration
  Access our collaborative document here: Brainstorming Laptop Integration
• Comments: Return to the document and add two comments as a response to another teacher.

3. Logistics and Planning

• Students: During school, laptops are for Teacher-Directed, School related work ONLY.
• Discuss Rollout and how we will schedule classes.
  • Student logins and syncing - students must change their passwords before they can use the laptop
  • We need at least an hour to go over syncing/rules and procedures before giving students the laptops
  • You need to decide: Each 8th grade teacher will have a cart of laptops in his/her _?_ period class (6th grade: 1st period; 7th grade: 9th period).
  • The Rollout will happen during your core classes. You must be present to hear what we tell the students.
  • During Roll-out, and at least one other time during the year, Liz and/or Paula will meet with students to remind students of their responsibilities.
    
    
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• Laptop Procedures:
  • Students keep laptops with them at all times or place it in a locked locker or a cabinet (Art and P.E.).
  • Passing periods... time management
  • Student computer problems: Help is available during Advisory or before/after school; try not to send them during class periods.
  • Liz, Paula and Matt offices accessible through the Library
  • Technical Assistance: Please do not email Matt for technical assistance. Vern has asked that you email Liz. We will look over help requests and send those to Matt that we need him to handle. We do not want Matt stopped in the halls or pulled off task. He still has large projects to finish that affect many users.
  • Consequences for damage: Loaner laptop -> loss of overnight privileges -> use desktop computer in classroom -> loss of all privileges
  • Student behavior issues - how will your team deal with these?
  • During Advisory the laptops are not to be used to entertain the students.
  • Bandwidth Issues: YouTube, TeacherTube, GoogleEarth, Streaming music and video
  • Students need to be reminded that they must be responsible for their use of their laptop and the network.

• Sign up to have Liz or Paula come work with you or your class. Make sure you let us know what we're doing!
  Liz's Schedule can be accessed here.
  Paula's Schedule can be accessed here

• What is on your students' computers? Review programs

• Internet Safety Lessons: Please look this over and decide who will be teaching this to students. It is mandated by the State of Illinois that all students will be part of an Internet Safety class. It is important that students complete these lessons at the beginning of the year so that we are all on the same page as the year progresses.
  • 6th Grade Internet Safety Lessons
  • 7th Grade Internet Safety Lessons
  • 8th Grade Internet Safety Lessons

4. Lunch

5. Using Zoom to hook students

6. Pages Basics & Review

Pages video Tutorials available here.
Review and Learn some new skills and features of Pages

• Templates
• Your best friend: The Inspector
• Other Goodies: Media Browser
• These tools are also available in Keynote, Numbers, and iWeb

Create a short flyer to post in your classroom about you, your subject area(s) or about classroom procedures.

7. Work Time